A German diplomat threatened a non-profit group with sanctions for what he called anti-Semitic activity. At a May 28 meeting of the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council’s Committee on Nongovernmental Organizations, the German delegate harshly criticized one organization that had denigrated Zionism as racism in the run-up to the 2001 U.N. World Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa.
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